Christina Gough
Research expert covering sports and video gaming
Chicago Bears - Statistics & Facts
The Chicago Bears are a professional football team that compete in the National Football League (NFL) in the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Arizona Cardinals and the Bears are the only charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding in 1920. Currently headquartered in Halas Hall at Lake Forest, Illinois, the Bears were founded in 1919 in Decatur, Illinois, before relocating to Chicago in 1921. The team currently plays their home games at Soldier Field on the Near South Side of Chicago. Despite winning only one Super Bowl since their inception, the Bears had one of the highest all-time winning percentages in NFL history and was one of the most highly valued franchises in the NFL as of the beginning of the 2023 season.
How are the Chicago Bears performing financially?
A majority of the Chicago Bears’ shares are owned by heirs of the team’s founder, former professional football player and coach George Halas. Compared to their valuation in 2002, the franchise value of the Chicago Bears was more than ten times greater in 2022. Looking at the revenue generated by NFL teams, the Bears earned around 556 million U.S. dollars in 2022. While this was not the most revenue generated by an NFL team in 2022, the Chicago Bears did have the lowest payroll in the NFL that year.How many Chicago Bears fans attend live games?
Solder Field – the home stadium of the Chicago Bears since 1971 – welcomed an unprecedented number of supporters throughout 2022. Specifically, more than 538 thousand fans visited the stadium to watch home games of the Bears during that year, representing a slight increase over the figure reported in the previous year. However, the average regular home season attendance at Soldier Field was slightly lower in 2022 than in the previous year. All of this coincided with a five percent in the average price of Bears’ home game tickets between 2021 and 2022.How many people follow the Chicago Bears on social media?
As of April 2023, the Bears had roughly 5.8 million followers in total across Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter). Facebook was the most popular social media platform for the Chicago Bears, with nearly 3.8 million fans following the official page of the Bears on the social networking site in 2022. By contrast, there were just over two million followers of the Bears’ X handle, although the number of followers has been increasing on X since August 2021, whereas the number of Facebook followers have been decreasing during this period.
